Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome
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Chronic cough hypersensitivity syndrome
Chronic cough has been suggested to be due to three conditions, asthma, post nasal drip, and reflux disease. A different paradigm has evolved in which cough is viewed as the primary condition characterised by afferent neuronal hypersensitivity and different aspects of this syndrome are manifest in the different phenotypes of cough. There are several advantages to viewing cough hypersensitivity ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cough
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1745-9974
DOI: 10.1186/1745-9974-9-14